The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-06
THINGS THAT ARE HEARD AND SEEN.
Bits Of Information Gathered During the
Daily Saunter of Journal Reporter.

Bits of Information Gathered During the
Daily Saunter of Journal Reporter.
"There are few arts" said Photographer |
Harry Fowls. to a Journal reporter, 'that have
Gads greater progress during the last ten years
than that of photography. A person sitting for
photograph few years ago would havet to keep i
III position for from forty seconds to one and |
BALI minutes or more. 1t is almost impossible
for nervous person to sit a minute In those /
days chillren's pictures were rarely taken well. |
II We got from Eve to ten seconds on a child we |
were in great luck We have no difficulty now |
In taking babies just as well as their older rela
tiyes. It is no longer necessary for the baby to
como accompanied by all its female kin, together
with its parents. with articles enough to fill
small toy-shop brought along to engage its at
tention, as we now make the exposure and get a
picture IN from one to five seconds for portrait
work of the best class. On ordinary work 1t IS
Snstahtaneous-the lens can hardly be uncapped
quick enough. Pictures are made from one sec
end down to thousandth of a second. The
electric light except for photo-enlarging work,
= not good; the lights and shadows are
900 pronounced. A gray sky like this,
with the instantaneous process is admirable for
face by getting the light off by means of cur
tains. A gray day modulates the light OF itself,
and we need pay no attention to standings
Within few years nearly everything has been
successfully Photographers flash of lightning,
arace-horse going round the track. bicycler in
Notion. geysers, explosions etc. fsh-hawk
has been photographed raising from the water
with a struggling fish in her claws, the picture
actually showing the water running off the
i}sh. Here is picture Of Raper Commandery, of
his city, on the parade ground at San Francisco,
going off at double-auick. right oblique.
number of detective cameras have been invent
cd; one of these is carried under the arm, and by
touching spring picture can be taken IN a
twipkling. Another, termed vest camera, Is
etiI smalley-about the size of 10cent box of
blacking The opening can be put out through
buttonhole and by touching an electric spring
d face or figure can be taken In crowd"
Somebody has been circulating the report that
VIM A. Fulton, of Anderson, one of the assis-
ant clerks of the House Of Representatives, is a
Democrat That he is Republican, and agood
sne is due to his mother, for his father is a DEM
Ocrat II is a case in which the mother, who is
An intense Republican has raised her two sons,
William and Joseph, in her own political faith.
Both of them take very active part in local pol
tiles in Madison county, and are leading mem
bers in the Young Mems Republican Club
Thomas NJ Bassett, of the New York Dry
goods Store, is bright, pleasant, active man of
Husiness his hair and beard we'll sprinkled with
gray. The one-price system introduced into
This city thirty-four years by the New York
6tore. short time ago lady from outside the
city went into that place Of business and bought
? bill of goods amountineto $50. so. She insisted
Spon having that odd fifty cents knocked off,
and felt much hurt that her wishes were not &C.
seded to, and paid the bill erudgingly. In the
meantime, the little girl, with great hungry
ayes, was looking at the beautiful picture books
on an adjacent counter. She asked her mamma
10 buy her one, but was rather snappishly
fused. The quick-stepping, bright eyed. gray
haired gentleman just mentioned who seems in
minute to be everywhere about the store,
quietly picked up large picture. book, and hand
II to the little girl made her present of it. The
book was worth 80 cents. The mother was
greatly surprised. How is it." said she, you
wouldn't throw off so cents from my bill, and
Jet you give the child book worth twice that
Dmount Of money! 1t was briefly explained to
her, by clerk. that no reduction was ever made
on an article but it benevolent old gentleman
Ia authority chose to make present that was a
different thing, and was certainly none Of the
clerks business.
Bishop Chatard was asked what he thought of
the McAll Mission He laughed at the Protest
ant idea of putting Catholic France on the same
plane for mission work az China. He had paid
some little attention to Protestant missions in
Italy. He remembered some years ago to have
seen the figures that after some twenty years
hard work in Italy. with missions in Rome, &c
noa, Venice. Naples, Florence and other large
cities OK that country, the statistics showed
about sixty-fve thousand Protestants in the
peninsula When it is taken into accoun
that there arc thousands of foreigner.
resident in Italy who are Protestants
snd that these figures included those
he did not think the success could be considered
great. He had reason to think that many of the
converts were insincere; that they accepted gifts
and privileges, and then laughed at the credu
1ous donors He had demonstrated with two OF
three such who had told him of their duplicity
They seemed to proceed upon the same code o.
morals the Jews in spelling the Egyptians
Jse thought the investment in France would b.
much the same as in Italy. The money sen
from here goes to support the missionaries, an,
probably little else.
I'VE have had some telephone experience q
Evansville" said F. j. Scholz of the City Coun
Gil of that place. who is in the city for day O
two. about six months ago the Council in
structod the telephone company to take out it
instruments, giving the company two weeks
time to do The company paid no attention
SO the Council instructed the chief Of the fir
department to cut the wires and poles He di,
So The damage suit brought by the compan,
has been decided. Only 5000 damages wer
found against the city, but the lawyers fee
md other costs will make total of So 900 O
more Mr.. Scholz expressed himself as mncl
mortified with the proceedings which brough
Ruch result and making the Evansville Coun
ell the laughing stock OF the entire country
The explanation of this, "a of the attempt to re
pudiate the debt of Evansville is that the ma
jority of her City Council are Democrats
passing inquiry hy Journal reporter, yes
terday afternoon, brought forth from Polio
Commissioner Schurnann the following: Eyes
the Sentinel AMI News have to day both devote
some space to me- The News says am goin
to resign about the 10Th of the month, an
speaks of the present policy Of the board a
paving the way am not in any paving tn